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Explore the Boötes Void, the universe's vast "desert" where galaxies are sparse, and nothingness reigns. Discover its ...
June’s night skies provide excellent opportunities to discover a slice of the evening sky that is largely unsung, unheralded ...
Meet Barnard 68, which – if the Internet is to be believed (which it's not) – is "an empty void in space so big that if you traveled across it you wouldn’t bump into anything for 752,536,988 ...
Usually I don’t write much about deep, “holy grail” objects, but for the Boötes Void, I’ll make an exception. Specifically, I’m wondering what’s the smallest telescope needed to see ...
This time it's the turn of Barnard 68, which – if the Internet is to be believed (which it's not) – is "an empty void in space so big that if you traveled across it you wouldn’t bump into ...
In fact, the constellation is the home to the Boötes Void, an area of the universe 250 to 330 million light-years across that is nearly empty, containing only a handful of galaxies, according to ...
It includes a quote from astronomer Gregory Scott Aldering concerning a void in the constellation Boötes: “If the Milky Way had been in the centerof the Boötes void, we wouldn’t have known ...
At the heart of Ho'oleilana lies the Bootes supercluster and the Bootes void, which is a 330 million-light-year-wide space of nothingness. Related: Galaxy shapes can help identify wrinkles in ...
The Boötes Void is an area 330 million light-years across that is empty aside the smattering of unassociated field galaxies. This number is significantly less than the 2,000 galaxies that one ...